Definition of "souse"

(Although I bee well soused in this showere,)

1575, George Gascoigne, The introduction to the Psalme of De Profundis‎

For then I viewd his body fall and ſowſe / Into the fomy maine, […]

c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, Act IV, scene iii

As for my ſelf, they uſed to ſowſe me over head and ears in water when I was a boy

1730, Joseph Addison, The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq., volume the fourth, London: Jacob Tonson, page 154

As she heard him sousing heartily in cold water, heard the eager scratch of the steel comb on the side of the bowl, as he wetted his hair, she closed her eyes in disgust.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]

Eft fierce retourning as a foulcon fayre, / That once hath failed of her souse full neare

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

With that his murdrous mace he vp did reare, / That seemed nought the souse thereof could beare,

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Him so transfixed she before her bore / Beyond his croupe, the length of all her launce; / Till, sadly soucing on the sandy shore, / He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Thus on some silver swan or tim'rous hare / Jove's bird comes sowsing down from upper air

1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], page 484, lines 761-762

[The gallant monarch] like an eagle o'er his eyrie towers, / To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]

Mr Nash […] suddenly taking the gentleman by the collar of his coat, and waistband of his breeches, threw him souse over the parapet to the object of his love.

1780, Philip Thicknesse, The Valetudinarian's Bath Guide